Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Monadreela, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monadreela
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53100, -7.85963
- SMR number
- TS061-161----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On an E-facing slope on a roughly E-W orientated ridge, excavated in advance of construction of the N8 Cashel Bypass and N74 Link Road South. Remains of a shallow, circular area (diam. 5.7m) defined by fosse (Wth 0.3m; D 0.08-0.23m) variously V-shaped or steep-sided with a flat base. The upper portion of the monument appears to have been removed as a result of agricultural activity. No evidence of habition or burial, though the latter may have been removed with the upper portion of the monument. (Hughes and O'Flanagan 2003, 11-12, 33). A fulacht fia (TS061-169----) was excavated c. 50m to the E and a number of pits and post-holes (TS061-170----), including one containing Bronze Age pottery, were excavated within an area c. 50 to S and SE.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Flanagan, N. 2006 Site 7, Monadreela: Ring-ditch/fulacta fiadh. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 472. Bray. Wordwell.
Hughes, J. and O'Flanagan, N. 2003 N8 Cashel Bypass & N74 Link Road: phase 2 archaeological investigations. Site No. 7. Licence No. 03E0300. Unpublished archaeological excavation report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.